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The Midas Monument, a Phrygian rock-cut tomb dedicated to Midas (700 BC).. There are many, and often contradictory, legends about the most ancient King Midas. In one, Midas was king of Pessinus, a city of Phrygia, who as a child was adopted by King Gordias and Cybele, the goddess whose consort he was, and who (by some accounts) was the goddess-mother of Midas himself. [5]
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The extremely rich King Midas, overcome with greed and vanity, wishes aloud that everything he touched should turn to gold. An elf named Goldie appears beside him and offers him the "Golden Touch", demonstrating its magical powers by turning Midas's pet cat to gold, and then clapping his hands and snapping his fingers to change it back.
Midas, a king of Phrygia granted the power to turn anything to gold with a touch; Minos, a king of Crete; after his death, became one of the judges of the dead in the Underworld; Myles, a king of Laconia; Nestor, a king of Pylos who sailed with the Argonauts, participated in the Calydonian boar hunt and fought with the Greek armies in the ...
King Midas is said to have associated himself with Silenus and other satyrs and with Dionysus, who granted him a "golden touch". In one version of his story, Midas travels from Thrace accompanied by a band of his people to Asia Minor to wash away the taint of his unwelcome "golden touch" in the river Pactolus. Leaving the gold in the river's ...
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The Golden Age of King Midas/Kral Midas’ın Altın Çağı, catalogue of the Penn Museum exhibition. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum. Sheftel, Phoebe A. (2023). The bone and ivory objects from Gordion. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. ISBN 9781949057171. Simpson, Elizabeth. 2010.
King Midas (played by Kermit the Frog) spares the life of a satyr (played by Gonzo) that was sleeping in his garden after the satyr offers to grant King Midas a wish. While King Midas wants world peace, Queen Midas (Played by Piggy) wants money and they are granted the Golden Touch. King Midas then uses his talents to turn people's items into gold.